The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.
Nicholas NegroponteThere is a belief that children drop out of school because they're needed by their families to work, or the little girls are needed to take care of younger siblings. It turns out that's not really true.
Nicholas NegroponteWhen we go to school, very often, we don't see that passion because the way school is run, the disciplinary nature of it and the rote learning are so, sort of, offensive actually, that children sort of lose that passion more often than not.
Nicholas NegroponteMIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
Nicholas Negroponte